Cameras, NVR and cloud storage. Are they independent of each other

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hikvision-guy

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My ultimate goal is to have a ton of cameras connected to an NVR, and have that NVR upload the footage to the cloud
Now is there an NVR system that can support "a ton" of cameras, and have each of those channels uploaded to the cloud?

HikVision for example had some limitations; only some cameras support cloud storage, and only 8 channels can be uploaded to the cloud

So I'm wondering, is there such an NVR that can support "a ton" of cameras, and have each of those channels uploaded to the cloud?

Thank you
 
hikvision-guy said:
My ultimate goal is to have a ton of cameras connected to an NVR, and have that NVR upload the footage to the cloud
Now is there an NVR system that can support "a ton" of cameras, and have each of those channels uploaded to the cloud?

HikVision for example had some limitations; only some cameras support cloud storage, and only 8 channels can be uploaded to the cloud

So I'm wondering, is there such an NVR that can support "a ton" of cameras, and have each of those channels uploaded to the cloud?

Thank you
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As we have said, only the consumer grade cameras like Ring and Nest have true cloud recording, but it is a highly compressed video and only records on motion.

Even with an unlimited data plan, your ISP will not allow a good camera streaming unbuffered data continuously to a cloud. And the cloud storage will get expensive fast. 15GB of free google video is under an hour of storage with your ton of cameras LOL.

So I tried streaming one camera from my neighbor (they were aware of the risks of doing that but said they do nothing sensitive online - elderly couple that just use it for surfing net and no banking or anything) and their ISP threw a fit within 2 days and called them and said if whatever device is IPC-LPR isn't removed from their internet they will be cut off. We found out Spectrum unlimited really is limited LOL.

My cameras are streaming 450Mbps of non-buffering data to a local VMS - an internet provider would never allow it.

That is why we say here to stay away from cloud services.

What is your use case to require cloud storage?
 
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Is that a shit-ton or a metric ton?

Whose cloud? There are many..
The "cloud" is simply someone else's computer at the end of the day. Sitting in a data center somewhere, copied to other locations to provide redundancy and fast(er) access

Even if you can find an ISP that will allow you to stream all that data 24/7, I would think the cost both for bandwidth and storage would be an eye opener.
 
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